Turn it around: AT&T is giving Apple a bad name. AT&T is the reason I have an HTC. I was NOT going to switch to AT&T even to get an iPhone. My whole family is quite happy on Verizon, where the coverage is great, the prices are decent, and I rarely get dropped calls.
I don't like anything about AT&T. You could try to credit them with the wisdom to take a chance and partner with Apple on a groundbreaking way to make a smart phone, one that led to far better smart phones across the board, but even that was Cingular before the AT&T purchase.
Not according to this article. It is actually the iPhone's BUGGY software that is giving ATT a bad name where people are dropping calls with full bars...but in reality they barely even had a bar.
But then again I believe that's wrong because I can change the radio on my phone and go from 2 bars to full bars without moving my phone. The iPhone radio has issues that are giving ATT a bad name.
I love ATT service and I'm in an area dominated by verizon. In fact, it's to the poing now where I joke on my friends and co-workers because they have more areas we go in common and lose signal with Verizon than I do with ATT. They hate it too because they swore verizon is the best in our area.
We got VoiceStream (now T-Mobile) ca. 1998. A year later my wife signed up with AT&T, When the contract ran out we were HAPPY to have her switch back to VS/T-Mobile. Coverage was not as widespread as the other carriers but dropouts on VS/TM wouldn't blow your ear off the way AT&T did.
T-Mobile was great at customer service, even if they were last in fancy cellphone offerings.
But when it comes to electronics, I am more than reluctant to buy anything with batteries that can't be replaced. Only if it's inexpensive enough, like my 4G Sansa Clip (20G with mini-SD card -- 200 CDs capacity) for ~$40. After a year my cellphone's battery doesn't seem to have the capacity it used to, and I've watched laptop bateeries degrade over time.